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What is the role and significance of inspector goole
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The Dramatic Function of the Inspector in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley The play ‘An Inspector Calls’ was written by J.B. Priestley and it is about a rich family, a poor girl, an inspector and what connection each member of the family has to do with the poor girl, who ends up committing suicide. It begins with the family Arthur Birling, his wife, his son Eric, his daughter Sheila and Sheila’s fiancé Gerald. They are all having a drink celebrating the engagement of Sheila and Gerald. Later that evening an Inspector called Inspector Goole arrives and asks questions about a girl name Eva Smith who has just committed suicide. It starts with the family believing they have no major connections about the girl and how and why she committed suicide but as the play progresses Priestley uses the Inspector extremely effectively and all of the families secrets and lies are revealed and we find out the connection each member has with the poor girl which highlights Priestleys message. Priestley uses the play gives out the message to society that just because the rich have power and authority it doesn’t mean that they are always good and right they are wrong and bad as well, like ‘normal’ people. The play helps show the rich that they are not ‘untouchable’ from the law and that they can get into trouble and have problems as much as ‘normal’ people and it also says that people don’t think about how their actions effect others and it also gets across Priestleys message that everyone should look after each other. We are all part of one body. In this play I will attempt to get across views of who the inspector really is and what the dramatic funct... ... middle of paper ... ... anything or not. After all of the events I would say that everyone of the family is to blame as they all helped to kill the girl. Mr. Birling because he started of the chain of events firing her just because she wanted a rise, Sheila because she got her sacked from her last good job forcing her on the streets just because she was jealous of her, Gerald because he made her feel wanted and special before chucking her out on the streets and leaving her for Sheila making her feel useless. Eric because he got her pregnant and didn’t look after her properly when she as pregnant and Mrs. Birling because she denied her, her last opportunity for help just because she use her name. All of this shows that everyone was partly to blame for her death as a girl of Eva status had very few options and the Birling family abused this.
There would be more of an effect on the audience at the time, as it
it will create. He makes a toast to the couple and to the fact that
I think that Priestley’s main aim in the play is to get across to the
we are told that this story is about a girl or a woman and perhaps her
she needed more money. So she said to him give me 25/6 because of that
A Comparison of Characters of Mr. Birling and Inspector Goole in J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls
· The social class system at the time when the play is set, (rich and
uses an adult, Mrs Stiffler - a young mother trying to cling on to her
How Priestley Presents His Ideas To An Audience In Act One Of An Inspector Calls
J.B. Priestley's Play "An Inspector Calls" "Why shouldn't they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices. And I don't see why she should have been sacked". Eric to Mr Birling says this.
"And be quiet for a moment and listen to me. I don't need to know any
Examine Priestley's use of dramatic techniques to create tension in the play. Priestly was a socialist writer, and 'An Inspector Calls' is one of the plays in which he tried to display his socialist ideals in. The play was written in the 1940's, a little after the end of the Second World War, and it was first performed in 1946, in Russia, then later in England. Priestly had served in World War 1, and the terrible scenes he saw lead to him having socialist views. He was inspired by other writers whose views he shared, especially George Orwell and H.G.
J.B. Priestley wrote the play "An Inspector Calls" in 1945 and set it in 1912. These dates are both relevant because he wrote his play in a world emerging from the Second World War, at a time when people were getting nostalgic about pre-world war one. Priestley used his play to try and show people that the idea of a community in 1912 was gradually being washed away by the upper classes and that the world needed to change rather than return to the egotistical society that existed in pre war England.
The Birlings are holding a party to celebrate their daughter’s engagement with Gerald Croft. The pleasant scene is interrupted when a rather shady looking Inspector gives them a visit, investigating the suicide of a young working-class girl in her middle twenties. Each family member is interrogated and they all find out that they are somehow linked to the girl’s death.